Flood exposure is increasing in coastal cities owing to growing populations and assets, the changing climate, and subsidence. This article provides a quantification of present and future flood losses in the 136 largest coastal cities.
The historic Paris Agreement on climate change sets the course for a fundamental transformation of the global economy over the next decades. The Agreement’s overarching goal of limiting global average temperature rise to "well below 2°C" will entail profound changes in the global energy system.